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JAKARTA – In synchrony with the United Nations’ Year of Sanitation, Indonesia is launching a campaign to improve its population’s access to clean water and sanitation, IRIN reports. According to the World Bank, 220 million Indonesians currently live without adequate services. Launched in August, The National Strategy for Community-Based Total Sanitation plans to provide 10,000 […]
STOCKHOLM – Concern over sanitation emerges as a primary focus at this year’s water summit in Sweden. Stockholm International Water Institute’s executive director, Anders Bertnell, calls the state of sanitation across the globe “one of the world’s greatest scandals.” As experts in the water sector deliberate over the future of the resource, as well as […]
New UNICEF and the World Health Organization report: despite global progress, sanitation remains a major health concern throughout the developing world. By C.T. Pope, Circle of Blue UPDATE: This article was updated on May 26, 2009. When I first arrived in Uganda’s capital city of Kampala, I spent the night in a posh upscale suburban […]
GENEVA – According to the World Health Organization’s June 2008 report on water and health, “unsafe water, inadequate sanitation or insufficient hygiene” practices engender at least nine percent of the global disease burden. The burden inordinately affects countries such as Angola, where water-related health issues cause twenty-four percent of deaths. Authors of the report conjecture […]
As drought across Canada weakens its hydropower production, the country this year has become increasingly more reliable on energy imports from America.
The Rundown Protecting water systems and other critical infrastructure is the heart of a Biden administration cybersecurity plan. EPA memo details requirements for states and tribes when using federal funds to replace lead drinking water pipes. EPA moves to protect tribal fishing rights when states set water quality standards for rivers and lakes. FDA finalizes […]
The Rundown Biden administration restricts power plant pollution and aims to restore millions of acres of wetlands. Federal health and weather agencies develop a tool to forecast heat risk to human health. Bureau of Reclamation finds insufficient river sediment to do a high-flow water release this spring from Glen Canyon Dam. Two federal agencies sign […]
The Rundown EPA designation for PFOA and PFOS is meant to facilitate hazardous site cleanup. Water bills in Congress focus on shielding water utilities from PFAS cleanup costs, rural household water filters, and low-income water bill assistance. Biden administration releases a global health security strategy. CDC hosts its flagship disease detection conference this week with […]
The Rundown EPA intends to gather data on PFAS coming into and out of municipal sewage plants. House passes infrastructure permitting bill opposed by the White House. Western U.S. hydropower generation dropped to a 22-year low last year. Defense Department finalizes a rule restricting PFAS in firefighting foam. EPA enlists states in effort to protect […]
The World Water Development Report, an annual UN publication, shows that women and girls are the first to suffer when poor, rural areas experience drought.
